Roll your own! Setting up your own, private VPN can be done quite easily with https://github.com/jlund/streisand and a DigitalOcean account. Costs $5 per month. It doesn't require a whole lot of technical competence either, as the Streisand project configures just about everything for you.
Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?
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Re: Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?
#52I use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ on recommendation from a colleague, and I'm pretty happy. No logs, plenty servers, no real issues, and they recently shut down their Russian server due to imminent privacy concerns. So I feel that they have their priorities straight. I used https://www.frootvpn.com/ briefly when it was free - seemed ok too, but not many servers back then. Depends really what you want to us…
They seem to have some ongoing issues with their client - there have been speed issues with the last couple of releases, on Windows at least. I've had to regress to an earlier version or I get DNS timeouts galore with v60. There's quite a few open threads on their forums about this. Aside from that, their IPs seem to regularly get hit with Cloudflare captcha. Usually, but not always, switching to a different exit wil…
Re: Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?
#53Roll your own! Setting up your own, private VPN can be done quite easily with https://github.com/jlund/streisand and a DigitalOcean account. Costs $5 per month. It doesn't require a whole lot of technical competence either, as the Streisand project configures just about everything for you.
If you do roll your own, consider trying out WireGuard, the VPN protocol I've been working on. It's a lot faster and simpler than anything else. I'd appreciate all the feedback I can get. https://www.wireguard.io
If this can be used under ARM cpu and has smaller memory footprint compared to openvpn, I am going to use it.
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#57I've been using Tunnelbear( https://www.tunnelbear.com/ ) for a couple of years now and my experience has been fantastic: • It doesn't keep activity logs. • Their tunnel network has been recently improved and it counts something like 20 countries at the moment. • It's really fast and it keeps your device safe even in the possibility of a connection issue, it will block all unsecured traffic until it's possible to pro…
Re: Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?
#58I've been using Tunnelbear( https://www.tunnelbear.com/ ) for a couple of years now and my experience has been fantastic: • It doesn't keep activity logs. • Their tunnel network has been recently improved and it counts something like 20 countries at the moment. • It's really fast and it keeps your device safe even in the possibility of a connection issue, it will block all unsecured traffic until it's possible to pro…
On iOS, it's free up to 500MB/mo, $4/mo after. Their app has VPN auto-reconnect on iOS, which is useful because iOS does not seem to support always-on VPNs (except for "enterprise").
Re: Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?
#59Roll your own! Setting up your own, private VPN can be done quite easily with https://github.com/jlund/streisand and a DigitalOcean account. Costs $5 per month. It doesn't require a whole lot of technical competence either, as the Streisand project configures just about everything for you.
If you do roll your own, consider trying out WireGuard, the VPN protocol I've been working on. It's a lot faster and simpler than anything else. I'd appreciate all the feedback I can get. https://www.wireguard.io
Re: Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?
#60You should check out this very extensive comparison sheet as well: